The “Schumer Shutdown” is effectively over, just in time for us to clean up the airport mess get the food that SNAP recipients. This epic failure of the record-setting shutdown of the federal government is carved in political stone for as long as Schumer will be remembered.

The Congressional Democrats looked and acted like children throughout this record-setting escapade.

The biggest loser?—after the people actually hurt or at least inconvenienced by this stunt? That would be the Democratic “leader” in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and by a lot.

His strategy from the start was to head off a primary challenge in 2028 from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and that’s it.

Schumer put everyone through this business because he thought it might help his chances of spending another six years in elected office, something he has been doing since 1975. Schumer has been on the taxpayer’s payroll for over 50 years already.

The collapse of his costly “Schumer Shutdown” stunt will trail Schumer for the rest of his career—a career that may well be shorter as a result of this gambit.

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President Trump’s tariff strategy is not merely an economic and trade whim; it is a crucial and lawful defense against existential threats that require presidential action. In a world where adversaries use trade to undermine America's security, the commander-in-chief must possess the authority to declare emergencies and implement tariffs as strategic measures for national survival.

Critics argue this is overreach, but both the Constitution and Congress empower him to act decisively, as statutes like Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act layout.

Consider the stakes: Annually, trade deficits exceed $1 trillion, particularly with China. These are not just benign figures; they represent “unusual and extraordinary” vulnerabilities that weaken U.S. manufacturing, compromise military readiness, and contribute to the fentanyl crisis, which claims over 100,000 American lives each year.

We face existential emergencies. Tariffs are needed to save and secure the republic.

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About Zohran Mamdani’s election, a few thoughts: Listening to his supporters and statements, there is no question as to Marxist loyalty. And, as DSA Founder Michael Harrington wrote, Karl Marx is “a democratic socialist in the most profound sense of the phrase.”

Neither should we be fooled by the DSA’s use of the word “Democratic.” China, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela all claim to be Democratic Socialist republics in their constitutions, so did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR), in its day. About which: one popular supporter of Mamdani’s, with millions of social media followers, said on election night in New York: he wished the USSR, not the U.S., had won the Cold War.

Fourth, the Democratic party is welcoming of all this into its ranks, with prominent members endorsing it, hardly any denouncing it.

It’s time for all America to take Marxism seriously. After all, the youth movement behind Mamdani, Mamdani himself, and seemingly the bulk of the Democratic party, do.

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